Roderick MacSween explained

Sir Roderick Norman McIver MacSween (2 February 1935  - 11 December 2015) was a Scottish pathologist, professor of pathology at University of Glasgow, 1984 to 1999.

MacSween was a past President of the Royal College of Pathologists (1996–99), a member of the General Medical Council (1998-2001)^[1] and was knighted for services to medicine and to pathology in 2000.^[2]

He was a chairman of Tenovus Scotland, which annually award the Sir Roddy MacSween prize and medal to a medical student of the University of Glasgow for outstanding performance in pathology.^[3]

He also chaired investigations into diseases affecting farmed fish.^[4] His Pathology of the liver has reached its 7th edition and is also an ebook.

Sources

• MacSWEEN, Sir Roderick (Norman McIver), Who's Who 2012, A & C Black, 2012; online edn, Oxford University Press, December 2011; online edn, Nov 2011 accessed 22 February 2012

Notes and References

1. Web site: Prof. Sir Roderick MacSween – President 2009-. Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow. 22 February 2012. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120415132648/http://royalphil.org/?page_id=89. 15 April 2012.
2. Web site: Knights Bachelor etc. BBC News. 2000 . 22 February 2012.
3. Web site: Scholarships and Awards. Tenovus Scotland. 2018 . 25 June 2018.
4. News: After foot-and-mouth, now it's salmon. 8 November 2001. The Scotsman. 22 February 2012.